Interesting Random Statistics Thursday

[Meadbh]

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

Wow! I guess abstinence is not highly prized among the female ferret population, then!

 

[Martha]

Also true of Vulcans.

 

[cantlogin]

Baby beavers are called kittens

 

[cantlogin]

I think we're drifting from random statistics to trivia. Sorry.

 

[REWahoo]

I think we're drifting from random statistics to trivia. Sorry.

OK, I'll offer a random statistic: Only one poster on this thread is a nit-picker.

 

[Khan]

Bet it'd fill a dumptruck.

What I'd like to know is why it stops growing on your head where you want it to, and starts inside your ears, nose, down your back and in other unmentionable places where its not only undesirable, its disgusting!

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[ERD50]

OK, I'll offer a random statistic: Only one poster on this thread is a nit-picker.

Two - it's not Thursday. - ERD50

 

[Nords]

A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.

Someone's gonna have to pick up about 25 of my share.

Also true of Vulcans.

OK, I have to know... what's also true of Vulcans? I hope this isn't pork-related...

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

Google "pon farr".

 

[Nords]

Google "pon farr".

Oh, I don't have to Google that, I'm old enough to have seen the original broadcast!

My question was whether we were discussing ferrets or toe-biting or doughnuts or "Mikes" or dancing or body hair...

 

[clifp]

I think Pon farr leads to toe-biting in humans, ferrets and Vulcans and body hair in disgusting places, makes it more likely that you'll end up insane during Pon Farr.

I regret my inability to include doughnuts in the above.

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

You've lost it, man.

You could have slipped it in as a hairy donut, which is larger on the northern end than the southern end.

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

 

[cantlogin]

So THAT'S why they call them pigskins!

 

[twaddle]

The Straight Dope: Why is a football called a pigskin?

Because calling it a pig's bladder, which is what it actually is (or was), is a bit too real even for football players.

 

[HFWR]

Wow, to be a male ferret!

Step 1: Kill all other male ferrets.....

Thus the term "to ferret out"...

 

[REWahoo]

Ten per cent of the salt mined in the world each year is used to de-ice the roads in America.

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

The sea contains an estimated 40 million, billion tons of salt; If the world's oceans evaporated, enough salt would be crystallized to cover the entire state of new york to a depth of 50 miles.

 

[Texas Proud]

The sea contains an estimated 40 million, billion tons of salt; If the world's oceans evaporated, enough salt would be crystallized to cover the entire state of new york to a depth of 50 miles.

That's not deep enough... some might still escape

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

Its estimated that fear of the number 13 costs the US economy roughly $1B per year.

Think on that the next time someone tells you that they cut $200M out of the budget.

Thats only 20% of what eliminating number 13 would net.

 

[HFWR]

The sea contains an estimated 40 million, billion tons of salt; If the world's oceans evaporated, enough salt would be crystallized to cover the entire state of new york to a depth of 50 miles.

Mmmmm, margaritas!

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

Women with medium length hair are perceived to be smarter than women with short or long hair.

 

[jIMOh]

statistic: 50% of the people in the world have below average intelligence

trivia: If you google miserable failure, you find the biography of GWB.

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

The first computer virus that spread among personal computers was written for an Apple computer and was intended as a practical joke. Unfortunately the joke got out of hand and infected a fairly substantial portion of the contemporary Apple community via a pirated computer game.

 

[twaddle]

I thought the first computer virus was MS-DOS.